Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans BOTY_2025 The third novel in the

The third novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake

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Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans BOTY_2025 The third novel in theFrom the author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, a book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth where tigers routinely eat peopleswimming silently behind small boats at night to drag away